I'm always fascinated by trades involving draft picks - wondering what kind of player they turned out to be?

In cases where the Canucks traded away a draft pick, it's likely that they wouldn't have selected the same player that the other team picked, but it is still interesting to see how that player turns out in comparison to the player traded...

It's still early, but here are players that were picked with Canuck picks 2008-2013 (shortened it to 1st to 4th round picks):

No superstars yet - well, maybe Frederik Andersen has looked pretty good for Anaheim - but the Pahlsson trade has the potential to look really bad in retrospect. And the Ballard trade stinks, of course!

It's not so much the multitude traded picks who amount to nothing in the NHL that kill you, but the one or two over the years who do become notable players who can bite a team in the ass - especially if they turn out to be the kind of player the organization could have used during said career.

As for Howden, I think the jury's still out on him at this point but yet-to-be-realized potential still beats a bought-out square peg.

Who knows what Gillis and his clowns would have drafted had they kept the picks. My beef was how gillis justified trading the 1st to florida cause they didnt like what was available, lol.

Brayden McNabb is one of buffalo's top prospects and they have a lot of good prospects. He was called up a couple weeks ago

The funny one is how the two 4th round picks we gave up for Pahlsson and what players were picked with those picks seemingly are the best of the bunch. Goes to show you can still find beauts later in the draft, ie Bieksa.

Cheers

"I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Are you listening? - Plastics." - The Graduate

There isn't a team out there or a GM who has ever drafted that hasn't made mistakes. There are only so many sure fire draft picks available every year, some years more than others. Yes some teams and some GMs are better at it given their entire body if work.

There are some teams who do a whole lot worse that MG in trading picks and picking questionable picks. Unless MG is picking number 1 overall, every GM picking ahead of him will have overlooked the same players he has.

Having said that, I do believe this is the time to hold onto picks and continue to re-stock. We have heard so much about our so called window to win. Well to me that window ends when the twins retire and MG has to have a plan to replace their production. It isn't the time to throw caution to the wind and go for that home run player at deadline day to get us over the top. That time may come again in a year or two but not right now.

I am not opposed to trading picks but it has to be for a franchise type player, not a late 20's early 30's career stagnating about to be on the downside if his career player. I don't want to end up like Calgary. I don't want to be like Edmonton. And I certainly don't want to be like the flyers, always changing direction one disappointing year after another.

I also think that a legitimate top six who can score would help this team immensely. None of the players we have traded or draft picks we gave up would fit that bill right now, none of them. For sure some have immense future potential written all over them but none of them would be in our line up right now.

The only trade of MG's I would like back is the Ballard deal. At the time, and for most of his tenure with the Canucks I supported the deal. I still think he was fucked over by AV and I still think he was a better option for game seven then a banged up Ehrhoff or Edler or two broken ribs Glass. Be that as it may, in retrospect and with the benefit of knowing how the Ballard saga ended it is easy to see it was a mistake.

The Booth trade has never hurt the team, other than cap space this season. MG has made mistakes, no question but name one GM that hasn't. I'm not sure if I have the confidence in him to make a good trade but he has shown the propensity for a few good waiver pick ups, college FA, and bottom 6 forwards. Some of his trade deadline day pick ups have also been good pick ups. He has not been a total bust but nor has he dazzled with brilliance.

I would give him two more years after this season to get us that cup and show a significant improvement in getting his draft picks into the line up. Failing those things I would hope we turn the page and get someone who can set the table for when the twins retire, and the rest of our core are all UFA.

- Coho was a good pick, although Ottawa scooped up Eric Karlson a few picks after. Boy, if we all thought Ehrhoff was a good PP guy, imagine if we have Sweedish Noris D-man Karlson playing with the Sedins? We all know we turned CoHo into Kassiassian and the jury is still out on Zack.
- Sauve looks like a minor leaguer and is Rai even playing hockey anymore?

- Jury is out on Schroeder. He had some nice moments in the NHL last year, but is probably too small to be a regular NHLer. Being injured doesn't help.
- Rodin looks like a bust. Played for the Wolves for a couple of years, but couldn't really produce and I think he decided to go back to play in Sweeden.
- I think we traded Connauton in Derek Roy deal. Connauton has some good skillz, but is probably not good enuff defensively to play regularly in the NHL.
- Andersson and Cannata are playing on our farm. Both are not really pushing for NHL jobs right now. Cannata seems to be the backup to Eriksson as well.

- MG traded all our top picks in the first 3 rounds in various deals. McNally was hyped to be a good prospect, but he had some problems in college (cheating on a test or something), which got him suspended in hockey. Seriously though, what can u expect for a 4th round pick?

- Jensen has looked good at times, but suffered a setback with his injury. With zero goals in 16 games so far this season, he is not looking very promising.
- Corrado looks like a good late steal as he played in the NHL playoffs for us last season. Potential to be a Tanev type player

- Gaunce looks like a good pick, although he never made the Team Canada juniors.
- Not sure what's up with Mallet. He has 1 goal in 16 games for the comets. Spent some time with the ECHL last year. Looking like a bust.

- Potentially Gillis's best draft. BoHo, Shinkaruk and Cassels looks like good prospects with Subban a possible darkhorse. Still need a few years to properly gauge how these picks turn out.

Overall Evaluation:

I would say overall, the drafting under MG has not been very good, granted the Canucks usually finished near the top of the conference and had 2 President Trophies. Other than CoHo, there is no regular NHLer drafted by Gillis in the past 6 years. That's pretty bad, at least have a couple 2nd - 4th liners to show for it, maybe a 7th D-man. U would expect some players from the first 3 drafts to start pushing for NHL jobs now, but there's pretty much no one except CoHo who already graduated to the NHL. There is some promise in the recent 3 drafts (especially 2013), but it'll take a couple years still to properly judge it. Yes, Tanev and Lack are looking like great young players that Gillis acquired through free agency, but the purpose of this post is to judge the draft only and overall I would give Gillis a C letter grade in his drafting. I would have given him a D, but bumped him up a bit with the promise of the crop of 2013.

The thread title is called DRAFT PICK TRADES Bersonoozi.... no one gives a shit what you think of Gillis's drafting. Maybe start a seperate trade for that. As for your grades: I give you an F for humor and an F for spelling. Oh and I thought about it for enuff time before I graded you . Isn't that what I'm supposed to do laff at my own jokes ??

Southern Canuck with all the draft picks the Canucks dealt away in 06 perhaps they could have chose Milan Lucic. Why are we discussing the players the other teams chose with the Canucks pick ?? The chance that the Canucks pick the same player as the team they traded the pick to would be very slim unless it is a top 10 pick.

Southern_Canuck wrote:I'm always fascinated by trades involving draft picks - wondering what kind of player they turned out to be?

In cases where the Canucks traded away a draft pick, it's likely that they wouldn't have selected the same player that the other team picked, but it is still interesting to see how that player turns out in comparison to the player traded...

Art Vandelay wrote:
Why are we discussing the players the other teams chose with the Canucks pick ?? The chance that the Canucks pick the same player as the team they traded the pick to would be very slim unless it is a top 10 pick.

.....U obveeeouslee haven't thought enuff ART... what makes you think anyone gives a shit what you think about anything???